Botswana

This card game pits you against your opponents to collect the most valuable animals!

This game is one of those painfully simple Reiner Knizia games.

There are five different animal meeples and animal fur pattern cards, zero through five, in each of the colors. The cards are dealt out, and then players take turns playing a card and taking any available animal piece. When one color has all six cards played on it, then the game is over, and players use the last card played in each category to value their animal meeples.

Botswana has been previously released as Wildlife Safari, Quandry, Loco!, and was originally published by AMIGO as Flinke Pinke. This game is one of those 'painfully simple' Reiner Knizia games. There are five different colored chips, with six cards, zero through five, in each of the colors. The cards are dealt out, and then players take turns playing a card and taking any available chip. When one color has all six cards played on it, then the game is over, and players use the last card played in each category to value their chips. The highest total value wins.

2-5 Players  |  20-30 Mins  |  Ages 7+

Features: Commodity Speculationm, Hand Management, Open Drafting, Stock Holding

Theme: Animals, Card Game

Awards & Honors:

2003 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Nominee
1996 Meeples Choice Award Nominee
1994 Fairplay À la carte Runner-up

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